Where/how do you wash?

[1BADLS3]

For those without their own detail shop, or even a driveway with a hose, where do you wash your cars?

...Do you put them through an automatic scratch-and-wash?

...Do you camp out late at a coin-op spray-wash and bring your own buckets?

...Pay a detail dude to hand wash the car?

I may jettison my house in the near future, and this is one of the questions that's been rattling around in the back of my head. Car washing is like therapy for me...

[CamaroDreams07]

Originally Posted by 1BADLS3

For those without their own detail shop, or even a driveway with a hose, where do you wash your cars?

...Do you put them through an automatic scratch-and-wash?

...Do you camp out late at a coin-op spray-wash and bring your own buckets?

...Pay a detail dude to hand wash the car?

I may jettison my house in the near future, and this is one of the questions that's been rattling around in the back of my head. Car washing is like therapy for me...

Option #2. But no need to camp out late...

[Capthowdy]

just don't use the brush filled with gritty scum...

[1BADLS3]

Originally Posted by Capthowdy

just don't use the brush filled with gritty scum...

Well aware, thanks I lived in an apartment for a while back when I owned a Ford Focus. It was black, so I tried to take care of it as best as I could, being an ex-dealership detailer. I'd go to the coin-op wash with a couple of buckets, but wow. Talk about hassle. Trying to fill the damn things with the spray-wand, water everywhere. Sometimes someone would invariably come up behind me and wait.... "Buckets?! come on, man..." --sorry, grumble, grumble...

Just curious if anyone had come up with anything ingenious, or if there are better recommendations, or better technique to commandeering a coin-op wash bay...